WARD — Defend and Protect

Ward actions respond to immediate threats: storms, equipment failures, conflicts, external dangers. These are reactive, protective actions ensuring the settlement survives to continue building.

Duskara-Specific Ward Examples:

Environmental Hazards:

• Prepare for incoming superstorm predicted by weather workers
• Respond to sudden temperature spikes threatening greenhouses
• Rescue people caught in flash wind-shear
• Contain fire from overheated thermal exchangers
• Evacuate areas threatened by day-side heat creep

Infrastructure Crises:

• Emergency repair of failing storm barriers mid-storm
• Prevent aquifer contamination from surface breach
• Restore power during critical system outage
• Stabilize collapsing sections of linear city structure
• Fight equipment fires in cramped quarters

Social Threats:

• Prevent violent conflict between feuding factions
• Stop hoarding of critical resources during scarcity
• Intervene when someone's psychic abilities spiral out of control
• Mediate before a splinter group causes permanent fracture
• Protect vulnerable individuals from mob mentality

External Dangers:

• Defend against predatory native creatures
• Secure settlement from raiders or desperate refugees
• Retrieve people lost in the scorched lands
• Warn neighboring settlements of cascading hazards
• Protect salvage operations from claim-jumpers

Ward Success Outcomes:

• Failure: Loss, damage, injury, the threat succeeds; +1 Tension (potentially +2 for catastrophic failures)
• Partial: Threat contained but at significant cost
• Success: Danger averted with minor losses
• Overwhelming: Threat eliminated completely, lessons learned, community strengthened; -1 Tension